[Wikipedia-l] blatant state-sponsored copyright violations (by Baide Baiku of the PRC)

Sat Jun 3 08:05:43 UTC 2006

On 31/05/06, Jean-Baptiste Soufron <jbsoufron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think it would be wise for the foundation to take any action
> that would not be correctly backed up by a chinese law firm
> explaining us what we can do, and what we cannot do. As much from a
> legal point of view, than from a PR or a political one.
>
> Jean-Baptiste Soufron
>
> Le 31 mai 06 à 20:15, Lars Aronsson a écrit :
>
> > Andrew Gray wrote:
> >
> >> We can't fight China; it'd waste our time and they wouldn't even
> >
> > This could be the case if the PRC were to put all its muscle
> > behind it, but it's not necessarily so.  Their encyclopedia is
> > apparently a small part of this Internet company, which is a small
> > part of something bigger, in several steps.  We don't mind their
> > making their own encyclopedia, only the GFDL violation.  Perhaps
> > this violation was just a mistake by some middle manager, and not
> > this decade's strategic policy of the whole communist party.
> >
> > Make a map of their power hierarchy and figure out whose decision
> > we're fighting, and how we can turn that person's boss into our
> > friend.  Make it easy for them to prune this dead branch from
> > their organization tree.  This may involve their NASDAQ status,
> > their U.S. trading partners, etc.
> >
> > What does Baide Baiku write about copyright, WIPO and such things?
> > Do they explain concepts like licensing and copyright violations?
> >
> >
> > --
> >   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
> >   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
> > _______________________________________________

Something at least needs to be done, turning a blind eye to it will only
make things worse.

-Selina